"Clean-up" on "Recorded TV". What does it do? (1 Viewer)

[2BitSculptor]

Yes, there is an options dialog, AFTER you select yes.

1 Delete watched recordings?
2 Invalid recordings
3 Watched and invalid recordings
4 Cancel

 

[Doron]

Great. Thanks!

 

[TomC13]

I just tried "Cleanup" "Invalid recordings" and it hard deleted all 534 files I had accumulated over two years, including recent, valid recordings. I'm really pissed at some unknown developer. Running Recuva now...

 

[regeszter]

Hi,

can you attache the logs? We need to investigate this bad situation.

 

[TomC13]

Logs attached.

2014-03-18
Installed MediaPortal
Pre-existing ~500 .wtv files from Windows Media Center

2014-04-05
Switched to Argus TV.
MP TVService was stopped and Disabled.

2014-04-06
Wanted to eliminate a large number of older recordings, deleting one by one from the GUI would have been tedious.
Did test:
deleted 1 file from disk
checked Recorded TV list, still there
exited and restarted MP, still there
deleted one row for that file from MySql - either 'mptvdb.recording' or 'argustv.recording', not sure which
(yes, I know that may have messed something up)
checked Recorded TV list, still there
from the Recorded TV screen menu selected Clean-up, All invalid recordings, acknowledged 2 prompts
All 534 recordings got wiped, including recordings made by MP recorder 2 days before.
Its not clear if any recordings made by Argus existed at that point.
See MediaPortal.log [2014-04-06 18:27:12,860]
Using Recuva, was able to recover ~200 files.
(If I had thought to immediately stop the Argus TV Recorder service I may have been able to recover more.)

 

[mm1352000]

Switched to Argus TV. MP TVService was stopped and Disabled.

If you've done this then you need to report this to the Argus people.
The TV plugin is responsible for deleting the recordings. Argus installs a replacement for the MP TV plugin. Therefore Argus is responsible for the delete behaviour. Please forward the report to Argus developers.